Massacred Democracy
Peña Nieto is best compared not to Roosevelt, but to Augusto Pinochet or Vladimir Putin. Like Russia, two decades of simultaneous economic and political “liberalization” have not ushered in a new era of citizen empowerment, honest government and public debate, but consolidated the same corrupt, authoritarian tendencies of the past. And like Chile under Pinochet, in order to impose unpopular “structural reforms” on the economy Peña Nieto has used an iron fist to purge and frighten the opposition.
Wow… John Ackerman isn’t pulling any punches. It’s a shame that so few Mexican voices are heard, even in the quasi-mainstream media (the article was in an offshoot of the Huffington Post), and perhaps a bigger one that the voices that do get into the mainstream media are usually those like Enrique Krauze or Jorge Casteñeda, who are, in the end, cheerleaders for a more U.S. style economic and social system.
mexfiles.net 
It’s a shame Krause and Castañeda don’t realize US parasitic capitalism is starting to crumble around them. Many of the current leaders of MX are Harvard trained